Women in Science

Explore science and research conducted by women in Rocky Mountain National Park!

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  • Eavesdropping (On Birds) Has a Smart New Tool

    • Locations: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
    • Offices: Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division
    Smart, remote audio detector stands in front of tree

    BirdNET uses artificial intelligence to analyze audio recordings and detect bird species by sound. We’re exploring its potential to help parks answer complex, pressing questions.

  • 2024 Rocky Mountain National Park Stewardship Award Presented to Dr. Erin Muths

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Three people stand together. Ones holds a small plague that says Stewardship Award.

    2024 Stewardship Award

  • Beaver Occupancy in Rocky Mountain National Park

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    A beaver foraging on the bank of a river.

    Where do beaver live in Rocky Mountain National Park? Researchers from Colorado State University conduct occupancy surveys to help answer this question.

  • Examining Fuels Treatment Effectiveness in Rocky Mountain National Park

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Wooden slash piles burning with snow covering the ground around them.

    Examining Fuels Treatment Effectiveness in RMNP

  • Loch Vale Long Term Ecological Research Program: Celebrating Stewardship and Science Since 1982

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    An alpine lake with jagged rock outcroppings in the background.

    Explore Long Term Data from the Loch Vale Watershed

  • Butterfly Survey at Lava Cliffs

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Grey butterfly siting wings open on grey and brown rocks.

    Each summer, Stephanie Mason, a Senior Naturalist with the Audubon Naturalist Society, spends six weeks in Rocky Mountain National Park documenting butterfly species along 20 transects as part of the Rocky Mountain Butterfly Project. In August 2019, Science Communication Intern Vishva Nalamalapu joined Stephanie to experience a typical day of butterfly surveys.

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    Dr. Willard’s Alpine Tundra Research Plots

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    Bettie Willard and fellow CEQ members provide Richard Nixon with an annual environmental report.

    Dr. Beatrice Willard (1925-2003) was a beloved and respected tundra ecologist. In 1959 she established research plots in Rocky Mountain National Park. At these plots Dr. Willard examined the "complexity of dynamic processes set in motion by visitor impact" for approximately 40 years. Dr. Willard’s work at the plots and the subsequent influence she had over national environmental policy is of great importance to our Nation’s history.

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    A tale of two sides of the mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    A mountain view with trees and a small alpine lake

    In 1997 a group of scientists led by Dr. Jill Baron, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey (USGS), designed a study in Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado. Baron and her colleagues wanted to understand how mountain ecosystems respond to air pollution.

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Last updated: February 8, 2024

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